Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Debbie, I wondered where you are in NE TX since I lived in or near Big D most 
of my so-called life. What I recall most about soil and climate is nobody 
knew how to grow their food. A lot of cotton farmers sold out or switched to 
cattle in the '50s when their cheap labor moved to town. My dad had some land 
and registered herefords and I learned a lot of useful skills the hard way, 
but not food growing. And the alledged farmers market in Big D was nothing 
but produce trucked in from the Valley.

It just stopped snowing here - for now. Now it's mud and keeping me from 
garden jobs when the cold wind is still. Most years we don't get this much 
precip, with 10" annual avg. I don't need El Nino.There's too much to get 
ready for next season to sit in front of the computer all winter. A market 
garden is no country for old men ;-)

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 2/11/2010 at 5:32 AM Debbie McDonald wrote: